I liked it to the end. Because it was a story about people, not about technology. Yes, they could have done it better. But frustration? Nope. I was just happy that I didn't have to see starbuck flying a cylon raider by kicking its guts from inside. *That* was the lowest point in the series.
Thanks a lot for your reply. I specially appreciated the bit at the end about D7. I guess I'll wait.
Most of the modules you describe, I've already used. I just don't know the code inside them.
"Download, uncompress on sites/all/modules, activate, if it doesn't explode, configure" that's my general approach with modules. It rarely includes a "have a peek at the code". But thanks.
I hope you didn't type all the descriptions of each module and just copy-pasted from somewhere else. Otherwise, what a lot or work!
I thought it was pretty much agreed that you could not "run" a framework. Just "use" it to build something (a website, an app...) that then you run. Significatively, there's no "content" (understanding content as "the thing that the end users usually change and use").
Drupal can run by itself, with no modifications (granted, the default installation will not let you do much, but you still can) so to me, it might be a framework plus something else - but definitively not "only" a framework.
I don't know the Drupal internals well enough, but if it is well designed, it should be reasonably easy to separate the "Drupal Framework" (classes that can be used to build other things) from the "Drupal website" (the "default content" that Drupal starts with).
"The point is that they're pushing to make this a requirement for using any major corporate or government service and turn you into a digital caveman. You will get a top-to-bottom locked down system because it's the only thing that'll work."
I think you are giving those guys too much credit.
What you are proposing would require pretty much the whole the corporate IT word to function like a hive mind, in the interest of their own good. And they would have to do it efficiently, in consonance, and without faults.
But the truth is that it is formed by millions of smaller groups driven by personal greed. That increases inefficiency and stupidity to levels that just don't allow such a massive coordinated effort.
If this worked it would be like watching a colony of ants carving out Michelangelo's David from a piece of dead wood.
HDCP and CSS/AACS just ilustrate this tendency. Pirated as they were, the only ones that finally got any benefit from those systems were the people getting money from the licenses sold to hardware manufacturers; at the end, they were just another way that a subgroup had to obtain personal benefit.
If an attacker has got root access, he can reset the passwords to whatever he wants. Unless I'm missing something, that's endgame. Users could have the passwords stored directly on the database, and it would make no difference.
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Apparently, the devs are not giving any opinions at all. The original post is from a random guy, not related with Banshee or Gnome.
Uninstall banshee and install any of the other players if you don't like it. The mp3 purchase thingie is fairly small and non-intrusive in any case.
I agree with this comment.
I liked it to the end. Because it was a story about people, not about technology. Yes, they could have done it better. But frustration? Nope. I was just happy that I didn't have to see starbuck flying a cylon raider by kicking its guts from inside. *That* was the lowest point in the series.
I agree on the depth.
However, B5 didn't have McGyver.
So then the solution is indie Science Fiction shows.
"How It's Made" is so awesome.
There IS already an Hindi Terminator. It's called "Robot":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svOlz2ei4Yk
Most *TV* is crap.
If you want the good stuff, read books.
Dear syfy:
Before you start putting Paris Hilton Best Friend Forever XIX,
Could we have a Foundation series?
You don't have to spend too much. I don't care if the robots are played by people in cereal boxes. You can save a lot in special effects that way.
Just make sure you name one episode 'Zeroth'.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot for your reply. I specially appreciated the bit at the end about D7. I guess I'll wait.
Most of the modules you describe, I've already used. I just don't know the code inside them.
"Download, uncompress on sites/all/modules, activate, if it doesn't explode, configure" that's my general approach with modules. It rarely includes a "have a peek at the code". But thanks.
I hope you didn't type all the descriptions of each module and just copy-pasted from somewhere else. Otherwise, what a lot or work!
I thought it was pretty much agreed that you could not "run" a framework. Just "use" it to build something (a website, an app...) that then you run. Significatively, there's no "content" (understanding content as "the thing that the end users usually change and use").
Drupal can run by itself, with no modifications (granted, the default installation will not let you do much, but you still can) so to me, it might be a framework plus something else - but definitively not "only" a framework.
I don't know the Drupal internals well enough, but if it is well designed, it should be reasonably easy to separate the "Drupal Framework" (classes that can be used to build other things) from the "Drupal website" (the "default content" that Drupal starts with).
+1 for Lenovo
For your information - horses stink as much as cows. And right after a run, they stink more.
They are waiting for Steve Jobs to step down to create his borg icon
It has been able to understand speech for some time now. It just doesn't answer, because it needs a driver upgrade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUE6FVK1zJE
Nah, it's the money.
"The point is that they're pushing to make this a requirement for using any major corporate or government service and turn you into a digital caveman. You will get a top-to-bottom locked down system because it's the only thing that'll work."
I think you are giving those guys too much credit.
What you are proposing would require pretty much the whole the corporate IT word to function like a hive mind, in the interest of their own good. And they would have to do it efficiently, in consonance, and without faults.
But the truth is that it is formed by millions of smaller groups driven by personal greed. That increases inefficiency and stupidity to levels that just don't allow such a massive coordinated effort.
If this worked it would be like watching a colony of ants carving out Michelangelo's David from a piece of dead wood.
HDCP and CSS/AACS just ilustrate this tendency. Pirated as they were, the only ones that finally got any benefit from those systems were the people getting money from the licenses sold to hardware manufacturers; at the end, they were just another way that a subgroup had to obtain personal benefit.
.... from a director called "Gore" ?
(tssss-plasssh!)
So now Microsoft can put me on the untrusted database for using linux and banks will not want to give me a loan.
I'm so building my next computer from scratch.
It's more like the fifth line.
But given the fact that you think that two-spaced indentation is a bad thing, you probably are impervious to wasted vertical screen space.
Despite hating Drupal a lot, I must point out that your signature makes me think that your comment isn't completely unbiased.
If the biggest problem you found on Drupal code was the two-spaces indenting, then reading Ruby code will give you a heart attack.
"At that point all the legacy unportable corporate applications that need IE6 will run in some kind of frozen in time universe"
That point is here already. There are companies effectively frozen in time, from the IT point of view.
If an attacker has got root access, he can reset the passwords to whatever he wants. Unless I'm missing something, that's endgame. Users could have the passwords stored directly on the database, and it would make no difference.